George Brown, Baron George-Brown

George Brown, Baron George-Brown (2 September 1914-2 June 1985) was Deputy Leader of the UK Labor Party from 1960 to 1970 and Foreign Secretary from 11 August 1966 to 15 March 1968, interrupting Michael Stewart's two terms. Brown led the party's trade union right-wing, and he was known to be a drunkard.

Biography
George Brown was born in London, England on 2 September 1914, and he left school at the age of fifteen to work in the fur trade. Brown became an active trade unionist and entered Parliament in 1945 as a UK Labor Party MP for Belper. He held various junior posts and became Minister of Works in 1951, and he was made Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in 1960, although he lost the leadership election to Harold Wilson in 1963. When Wilson became Prime Minister in 1964, Brown had a key role as head of the newly-created Department of Economic Affairs, but he never managed to develop it into the planning authority he envisaged. Brown also served as Foreign Secretary from 1966 to 1968, unsuccessfully pushing for British membership in the European Economic Community (EEC). He resigned in 1968 due to his ambiguous relationship with the party, the Cabinet, and especially Wilson, and he lost his seat in 1970. Brown accepted a peerage in the House of Lords, and he died in 1985.